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USS Arkansas (SSN-800) is a Virginia-class nuclear powered attack submarine currently being built for the United States Navy. She is the twenty-seventh boat of the class and the fifth vessel to be named for the U.S. state of Arkansas. She was ordered on 28 April 2014, and named during a ceremony on 15 June 2016 by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. Arkansas was keel laid on 19 November 2022 at Newport News Shipbuilding.
Service History
= Construction
=On 27 September 2023, Huntington Ingalls Industries, which oversees Newport News Shipbuilding, announced that the pressure hull of Arkansas had been completed.
In popular culture
A fictionalized version of Arkansas was featured in the 2018 film Hunter Killer, which was based on the novel Firing Point by George Wallace and Don Keith.
References
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- Kapal selam kelas Virginia
- USS Arkansas (SSN-800)
- USS Arkansas
- Virginia-class submarine
- Elizabeth Eckford
- Little Rock Nine
- List of submarines of the United States Navy
- List of current ships of the United States Navy
- List of United States Navy ships: A–B
- List of United States Navy ships named after US states
- Submarine Squadron 6
